Is MARINE CITY's water safe to drink?
MARINE CITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 4,652 people through 2,000 service connections.
MARINE CITY's record against the rest of the country
MARINE CITY has 6 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,595th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 33th percentile nationally.
How MARINE CITY compares within MI
MARINE CITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the MI average of 1.3, across 390 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MARINE CITY is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2021-12-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MARINE CITY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
MARINE CITY's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and MARINE CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,595th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.